Wow, Ubuntu made that easy! I didn't have to do anything, it just gave me radio button options to install it over the old OS or in a second partition.
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Originally Posted by
mark54g
Your applications will dictate that, as some support 32bit only, and some perform better on 64bit. However, you can run 32bit applications on 64bit, however there are library conflicts that can be possible. You can always run a virtual machine.
I'm primarily running math programs which benefit significantly (+80% to +200%) from the move to 64-bit. So far only one of the apps I tried to install wouldn't work (an FTP program), but there were plenty of substitutes so I just went for a different one.